...Officials decided to declassify the photo to prove that Syria's Shayrat air base was linked to the chemical attack, Capt. Jeff Davis, a Defense Department spokesperson said Thursday night.

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PHOTO: A Pentagon spokesperson says that this graphic shows the flight track of an aircraft that took off from Shayrat airbase to the location of an alleged chemical weapons airstrike in Khan Shaykhun, Syria on April 4, 2017.more +

The flight path appears to have taken a northerly track from the Shayrat airbase near Homs towards Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib province. According to the graphic released by the Pentagon, the plane appears to have circled the area around Khan Shaykhun and the area between the two cities multiple times.

U.S. officials said earlier that radar systems had tracked two aircraft taking off from the base, and that one dropped munitions containing Sarin gas that targeted an underground hospital run by the al Qaeda-affiliated rebel group formerly known as the al-Nusra Front.

White House Lays Out Evidence That Syria Was Behind Deadly Chemical Attack

A senior administration official laid out evidence that the Syrian regime was behind the chemical attack in the country that killed at least 80 people last week.

The official said intelligence gathered from social media accounts, open source videos, reporting, imagery, and geospatial intelligence showed that the chemical attack was a regime attack.

“I don’t think there’s evidence to the contrary at all,” an official who briefed reporters on background Tuesday said...

The official added that there were physiological samples from victims of the attack, and that their symptoms — frothing at the nose and mouth, twitching — were “very consistent with nerve agent and sarin exposure” and not consistent with chlorine poisoning...

“Moscow said chemicals were caused by a regime airstrike on a terrorist ammunition depot in the eastern suburbs of Khan Shaykhun. However, a Syrian military source told Russian state media on April 4 that regime forces had not carried out any airstrike in Khan Shaykhun, contradicting Russia’s claim. An open source video also shows where we believe the chemical munition landed — not on a military base filled with weapons, but in the middle of a street in the northern section of Khan Shaykhun.”

To explain why the regime would launch a chemical attack against its citizens when it did, the senior administration official said, “In the middle of March, opposition forces launched an offensive towards major city of Hama, which is a strategic city in Syria, where a strategic airbase lies. At that point, the regime — we think — calculated that with its manpower spread quite thin, we believe the regime probably calculated at that point that chemical weapons were necessary to make up for manpower deficiency.”

Friday, April 7, 2017

Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flags and the illegal attack by the Trump Administration

Dear Malcolm,

The people are not fools despite the media continuing to push the idea that 'Assad is using chemical weapons on his own people'. My social media networks are FILLED with people who are against Trump's bombing of Syria. No one is saying anything about how the US attack was justified in response to the recent chemical weapons incident. Most people think the CW attack was a false flag. Trump's attack on the Syrian Government is illegal. Australia being party to such operations would make those in command positions complicit.

You need to stop playing strategic games on this issue before the whole Internet-informed world turns against you. Each outrage and injustice turns more and more people away from mainstream media and the big political parties.

If your intelligence bosses are telling you that Assad is, and was, responsible for the CW attacks during the course of the war they should be fired. They know what is going on here. They know that the rebel groups are sectarian in nature and that the Assad forces are the moderates in the conflict. They know that the war has been sponsored by outside countries, such as outlined in an Aug 2012 DIA document that stated that "The West, Gulf Countries, and Turkey" were supporting the opposition where the leading groups were 'Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq]'.

The war in Syria is a proxy war crime. Knowingly pushing propaganda that supports the war - passing it off primarily as a civil war, where Assad is simply murdering innocent civilians - is a crime.

Stop what you are doing and think. Not all of the people will be fooled all of the time - especially in the modern Internet Age. Eventually a time will come, in the near future, where those that support the mass murders in Syria will be held to account.

Thanks for your attention.

ps. I have some (alternative media) experience in dealing with this sort of propaganda.__________________________

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

The Syrian government was quickly blamed by the West after the opposition-controlled Idlib region saw a chemical attack that reportedly killed dozens of civilians. However, a UK security analyst told RT the rebels were the only force that benefited from the incident.

There seems two possibilities, that either the chemical incident occurred because Syrian jets bombed a rebel ammunition depot containing toxic munitions or the rebels staged the entire incident.

There is no motive for Assad to use chemical weapons since the Government side is winning and to do so would invite outside intervention.